Posted on 07/31/2010 4:28:56 PM PDT by citizenredstater9271
Dr. Ron Paul explains why income tax and the FED are contradictory to individualist freedom. Most freepers disagree w/ Dr. Paul on foreign policy and I do too but this video is worth listening to.
“The obscene expansion of Federal power and the resulting socialist redistribution is of far more concern than tilting at the Fed windmill.”
None of which would be possible without the Federal Reserve Corporation and the lack of a Gold Standard, thereby allowing the Federal Reserve Corporation to print Money willy nilly and unrestricted. Inflation is THEFT plain and simple.
A few years from now all the former RP haters will be talking about how it is "obvious" something needs to be done with the Fed.
As staggeringly brilliant as the Founding Fathers were, it is no longer the 18th century.
Human nature hasn’t changed. The problems we are having with the Federal government are related to the Federal Reserve. We have a group of elites that seek total control of the American people and property. The unconstitutional acts of the Federal government and the growing power of the Fed is the same problem. They both must be dealt with simultaneously.
Here is another good explanation for why things are happening this way. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce0b520mR6Y
There are quite a few things within the apparatus of the Federal Government that need reform and/or complete overhaul and/or elimination, the Fed included.
However, Ron Paul and his merry band of nutzos aren’t the ones to lead the charge. IF they are, nothing will actually get fixed, it will be re-created in Ron Paul’s image instead which will be JUST as bad.
“wRONg PAUL is an idiot. Sometimes he’s right but most often he’s an idiot.”
Thank you for your insightful comment.
You’re welcome.
Eventually the Fed will end itself.
Who do you imagine gets this free money?
Totally wimpy, citizen.
So there's hope for us idiots to be "right" once in awhile?
What do you mean? Dr. Paul isnt in politics for self interest he is in it for liberty. Other politicians in WAshington only care about taxing more people and making them dependent on the gov. Dr. Paul isn't like that. His #1 goal is complete individualist freedom. He would only build a new system based on the Constitution and the liberty the Founding Fathers talked about.
These words were spoken by Louis McFadden, who died in 1936. Any chance he might have known what he was talking about?
Dying of Money: Lessons of the Great German and American Inflations
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So long as the government in this way could spend money it did not have faster than its value could fall, Germany had both its war and life as usual at the same time, which was the same as having the war free of charge. ...
The cities, particularly in the eyes of the austere country folk, had an aimless and wanton youth and a cabaret life of an unprecedented splendor, dissolution, and unreality. Prodigality marked the affairs of both the government and the private citizen. When money was so easy to come by, one took less care to obtain real value for it, and frugality came to seem inconsequential. For this reason, Germans did not obtain so much real wealth as the growth of money alone would have indicated.
Side by side with the wealth were the pockets of poverty. Greater numbers of people remained on the outside of the easy money, looking in but not able to enter. The crime rate soared. Although unemployment became virtually nonexistent and many of the workers were able to keep up with the inflation through their unions, their bargaining, and their cost-of-living escalator clauses, other workers fell behind the rising cost of living into real poverty. Salaried and white-collar workers lost ground in the same way. ...
Speculation alone, while adding nothing to Germany's wealth, became one of its largest activities. ...
Another busy though not directly productive sector of activity was in capital goods and industrial construction. ...
Concentration of wealth and business was still another characteristic trend. ...
It was typically true that the Germans who grew the richest in the inflation were precisely those who, like the speculators, the operators, and the builders of paper empires, were least essential to German industry operating on any basis of stability or real value. With the end of the inflation they disappeared like apparitions in the dawn, and scarcely a one of the "kings of inflation" continued to be important in German industry afterward. ...
Mostly Paultards are hopeless.
You’ve taken a survey?
You bet.
All the jackasses in Congress and freepers pick on Ron Paul. I don’t get it.
They hate him for the same reason that prostitutes hate faithful wives.
Who do you imagine gets this free money?
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